Install Drainage Solutions and Retaining Wall

[Music] we got a little boulder wall kind of thing i'm gonna put in right here to kind of hold hold this back because our patio is going to end on the corner of the house and we're going to have to do a whole bunch of stuff through here so yeah little wall how do you price out the pavers themselves where there's the fair market share the fair market value in your area it means that the price that i get is may not necessarily be anything close to the price that you can get wherever you are in fact the price that i can get for this job would not be the same price that i could get for this exact same job if i picked this project up and just moved it 100 miles north of me and put it in a more rural location so the easiest way for you to check out what your pricing is is to begin by be understanding is what's the pricing that your best competition is using and i say best because what's the pricing of the best companies what the guys that have a good reputation established what are they doing not what chuck in his truck is doing but what the big dogs are doing i worked for quite a few years before i heard first heard of the thing called a mobilization fee and that's when i had got my hands on one of my competitors bids i realized that they were charging for every piece of equipment that they were bringing up to a job site which also meant i could do that so for every excavator and skid loader and piece of equipment that you see that i have to make a special trip to bring out to the site i actually charge 250 for that fee [Music] now on this project we're also going to be burying two downspouts and daylighting those towards the end of the yard and re-grading the entire yard but we're going to cover pricing on those in just a moment as well now here you can see where we're hooking the drain tile up into the downspout of the house but how much do you charge for that trench well there's a number of different ways you can do it you can do it by the hour or you can charge by the linear foot in the past we've charged anywhere from eleven dollars per linear foot up to eighteen dollars per linear put but one of the biggest variables is how deep do you actually have to dig that so you've got to be very cautious if you give a flat rate per linear foot pricing what are the obstacles that you're going to be working around and how deep do you gotta dig